Ireland: Catholic Child Abuse Reports In Future May Be Censored
DUBLIN — Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication coul...
DUBLIN — Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication coul...
Heather Robinson | Posted 08.08.2009 | Home
Whatever your opinions, Palin and her family were savaged in a manner that went beyond any reasonable standard.
Jane Devin | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment
Why do we so often scramble to make excuses for the bad acts of celebrities when we wouldn't do the same for our neighbors?
Posted 07.26.2009 | New York
From NowPublic News Coverage An abandoned baby was found in a shoebox with a breathing hole in the lobby of an apartment building in Long Island, New...
Trish Kinney | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
The emotional stress of being a victim of sexual abuse may lead to physical illness such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and even cancer.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
Male influence in a child's life is invaluable, irreplaceable and necessary for most of us. There, I said it.
Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.28.2009 | Eyes & Ears
Youth should be sitting around the table with the policy and decision-makers, as no one knows the foster care system better than the youth who've lived in it.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
In a real-life "Jungle Book" situation, a 5-year-old Russian girl has been rescued from an un-heated Siberian flat, where she has lived her entire lif...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
DUBLIN — Ireland's government announced Tuesday it will summon Roman Catholic orders and demand they contribute more funds to the thousands of p...
guardian.co.uk | James Sturcke and Agencies | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
Baby P's mother was jailed indefinitely today for causing or allowing her son's death, as an official report said the killing "could and should have b...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
DUBLIN — After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Cat...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.18.2009 | Living
The stories of psychological abuse coming out of Mount Bachelor Academy are every bit as bad as I have heard from teens and parents at chains of programs that have far worse reputations.
Lise Van Susteren | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green
Lethal global overheating - strike the innocuous sounding "global warming" - is not something that may happen in the next century or even mid-century - it is happening now.
Reuters | Posted 05.16.2009 | Home
One 4-month-old baby was shaken so violently she needed surgery. Another 3-week-old suffered fractured ribs from abuse at home. A 9-year-old diabetic ...
Johann Hari | Posted 05.12.2009 | World
Two brothers -- aged ten and eleven -- have been charged with torturing two other, younger kids. Children who kill are a question of mental health, not morality. They are internally destroyed children, not devils.
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
An Italian man from Turin has been arrested for sexually abusing his daughter for over 25 years and encouraging his son to do the same. This case has...
CNN | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
A 3-year-old Bolivian girl whose parents thought was dead and were preparing to bury remained in a coma but was improving Friday, while her mother and...
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
Every day, week, and month that the current recession continues, and even deepens, more people die, get seriously injured physically, and suffer emotional hardships that can scar them for life.
Maria Hinojosa | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media
The response to my latest NOW on PBS report -- about sexual harassment of teenage girls in the workplace, airing this Friday -- has been like no other.
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
DUBLIN, Ireland — Ireland's most prominent Roman Catholic leader, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, questioned Tuesday whether all of his fe...
Dan Agin | Posted 01.19.2009 | Living
The way we rear children has changed through history and it differs from one place to another. What also changes are views about child neglect.
The Independent | Tom Rayner | Posted 01.12.2009 | World
A schoolgirl who was brutally raped and beaten by a gang of nine boys spoke today of how the ordeal has destroyed her life. The 15-year-old said the ...
The Age | Posted 01.11.2009 | World
A MAJOR investigation into an international child pornography network has resulted in the arrest of 19 Australian men including a retired Victorian QC...
Thelma Adams | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.
Doug Bremner | Posted 12.01.2008 | Living
My son is locked out of an account where he built up his online status over two years and has to start over where he will be insulted by other online gamers as a "newbie."
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 08.31.2009 | World